"In the age of ever-increasing crassness on screen (see the Farrelly brothers' comedies), there are some filmmakers who can make serious commentary instead of just throwaway gags. Neil LaBute's second feature is a corkscrew comedy of savage, bitter people who can't find happiness in many a thing, let alone sex. The film is not as tight or commanding as his first feature, the black-hearted In the Company of Men, but he gives six nameless ..."
"It's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Magge Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate - she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be. ..."
"Five seemingly unconnected lifelines intersect in the San Fernando Valley told through five separate stories. In "This Is Dr. Keener," Dr. Elaine Keener battles her mother and waits for a male colleague to call. "Fantasies About Rebecca" deals with a woman who finds out that she is pregnant by her married lover. "Someone for Rose" centers on single mother named Rose who becomes obsessed with her new neighbor. "Good Night Lilly, Good Nig ..."
"A small group of people are trapped in the Holland Tunnel linking Manhattan and New Jersey. A former emergency medical services chief, haunted by his past, must lead them to safety before the tunnel collapses."
"There goes the neighborhood when THE SUBURBANS - the height of cool back in the day - are rediscovered by an overly eager fan turned highpowered music executive (Jennifer Love Hewitt) determined to stage the comeback of her favorite eighties band. Suddenly, four regular guys (Craig Bierko, Will Ferrell, Tony Guma and Donal Lardner Ward) find themselves faced with the possiblity of recapturing thefifteen minutes of fame they lost eightee ..."
"What is a middle-aged bachelorette to do, circa 1868, when her brother unloads his three rowdy children on her Paris home a few days before her paintings are to be displayed at the prestigious Salon? Glean new inspiration, of course. In this hour-long docudrama, viewers learn a smattering about the life of Mary Cassatt, an American impressionist painter who honed her artistic talents in Paris. Her teenage niece, Katherine, provides the ..."
"First love can be innocent or intense, intoxicating...or insatiable. Mark Wahlberg, Reese Witherspoon and Alyssa Milano star in this riveting suspense-thriller about a passionate romance that soon becomes a deadly obsession. Nicole Walker (Witherspoon) always dreamed of being swept away by someone special - someone strong, sexy and sensitive who would care for her more than anything else in the world. David (Wahlberg) is all that and mo ..."
"Daylight ist ein Film, den man als Echo auf die Katastrophenfilme der 70er Jahre bezeichnen könnte. Sylvester Stallone spielt hier den geschassten ehemaligen Chef des New Yorker Medical Services, einer Art amerikanischen Technischen Hilfskwerkes. Er wird davon getrieben, Menschen in Not zu Hilfe zu kommen, gesellschaftlich wird er seit seinem Ausscheiden aus dem Dienst jedoch als Verlierer betrachtet. Als eine Explosion eines Tages Teil ..."
"Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. But Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation."
"An erotic rendition of the traditional folktale integrates elements of sexual desire, as the Prince awakens Beauty with sexual initiation, rather than with a simple kiss."
"Arthur Millers famous autobiographical drama takes place inside the tortured mind of a 40-year- old lawyer. Quentin is haunted by his disastrous affair with a needy sex symbol - a character rumored to be based on Marilyn Monroe, Millers second wife."
"In the erotic sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty is sold into sexual slavery and forced to obey the orders of the Captain and Mistress Lockley. Book available."
"In this adult fairy tale, the reader is beckoned into a sensuous world of forbidden dreams and dark edged desires - a world in which the traditional ideas of submission and dominance and gender preference are thrown to the wind."
"Yearning to escape her stifling, authoritarian upbringing, ladylike New Englander Clementine Kennicutt elopes with cowboy Gus McQueen to Montana, where she comes face to face with the harsh realities of frontier life. Simultaneous."